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Killer In The Rain

Chandler Raymond

KILLER IN THE RAIN, THE MAN WHO LIKED DOGS, THE CURTAIN, TRY THE GIRL, MANDARIN'S JADE, BAY CITY BLUES, THE LADY IN THE LAKE AND NO CRIME IN THE MOUNTAIN It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the pages of the Black Mask and Dime Detective Magazine, are eight of his finest stories. Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whiskey, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre. Also published in Penguin are the complete Phillip Marlowe novels; often imitated but never bettered, Raymond Chandler's creation became the most famous fictional detective since Sherlock Holmes. Read them now in Penguin paperback. Подробнее

Killing Me Softly

French Nicci, 2000

Alice Loudon seems to have everything: close friends, a loving boyfriend, a successful career. Then one day she meets a stranger while crossing the street and — impulsively, immediately — abandons her old, safe life for a passionate affair. It leads her into a dark, dangerous realm of eroticism and extreme experience that both entices and alarms her. Adam Tallis, heroic survivor of a disastrous mountaineering expedition, teaches her things about herself she never knew. As she learns more about her lover, she enters his world of risk and transgression — and begins to uncover a past filled with troubling secrets. But love and sexual obsession overwhelm her until they threaten everything: her safety, her sanity, and, finally, her life. Подробнее

King Solomon's Carpet

Vine Barbara

Eccentric Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house: Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who finds his terrifying thrills on the tube; and enigmatic Axel, whose deadly secret casts a shadow over all their lives. Damaged, dispossesed, outcasts, they are brought together in violent and un-foreseen ways by London's dark and dangerous underground system. Подробнее

Kiss Kiss

Dahl Roald

More classic twisted tales from Roald Dahl, which explore desire, deceit and the macabre with shocking results. In 'Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat', a spurned woman tries on the glossy mink coat her lover has given her as a parting gift. 'Landlady' tells the story of the sinister hotel where the guests check in and never leave; in 'William and Mary' a wronged wife takes the ultimate revenge on the deceased husband she cannot escape; 'Georgy Porgy' is the strange vicar with a disturbing fear of women; and 'Pig' shows how eating meat can be fatal ... Подробнее

Land Of The Living

French Nicci

Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark, hooded and bound … She doesn’t know where she is nor who it is feeding her, talking to her – threatening to kill her. Yet Abbie has courage and, above all, hope. She escapes her captor and runs back into the light. But the real world, the safe one, isn’t as she remembers it. There are days missing before she disappeared – days when she quit her job and left her boyfriend, did things she can’t explain to the police, her friends or even herself. Why won’t anyone take her story seriously? Because if Abbie can’t convince anybody that it really happened, then maybe he will come for her again. And she will wake in the dark, hooded and bound … Подробнее

Last Witness

Hoffman Jilliane

Evil sees you Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida’s Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend — for the torture and murder of eleven young women. Evil hears you Now three cops crucial to Bantling’s conviction have been brutally slain. CJ knew them all — and the shocking secret they took to their graves. Evil knows you But it’s clear that somebody else also knows the truth — though their reasons for wanting it kept quiet are very different to CJ’s. Which leaves her with a terrifying choice: reveal the secret she swore to keep and stay alive — or be its last witness, and the next to die ... Подробнее

Leonardo Da Vinci

Nicholl Charles, 2005

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an 'intimate portrait' of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials — his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc — as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made myriad small discoveries about him and his work and his circle of associates. Among much else, the book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, on his homosexual affairs in Florence, and on his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography. Подробнее

A Lesser Evil

Pearse Lesley, 2006

When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating. Insatiably inquisitive, Fifi is fascinated by her new neighbours and wants to know what goes on behind all those shabby front doors. Why is Yvette, the French dressmaker, such a hermit? Why doesn't widower Frank join his daughter and grandchildren in Australia? And why doesn't the formidable and well-bred Miss Diamond move somewhere smarter? But most of all she is ghoulishly fascinated by the Muckles who live opposite in terrible squalor. She listens to their violent quarrels, watches their ill-treated and wretchedly unhappy children, and is appalled by all she sees. When Fifi tries to help the Muckles' youngest child, who has been physically abused by her father, Fifi unwittingly unleashes a chain of events which will not only bring heartache to her and Dan, but terrible danger to all the inhabitants of Dale Street ... Подробнее

Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Franken Al, 2007

A fair, balanced, even-handed (and slightly left-of-centre) look at the greedy, evil, warmongering bigots and scumbags of the American Right … Al Franken’s storming bestseller has already had America up in arms over its exposure of lying right-wing politicians and pundits. Now you can find out why. Join Al as he trashes the untruthful, mauls the mendacious and bitch-slaps the Bush misinformation machine. Here he sticks it to the most right-wing administration in history, proving once and for all that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and their oil-rich cronies have twisted the truth over the 2000 election, over policies that shaft the poor and screw the environment – and of course over those ever-elusive weapons of mass destruction. He also reveals how a ‘neutral’ American media is bullied into spinning those lies, with the Death Star-like empire of Fox News and hysterical right-wing hacks attacking all liberal thought. They’re all liars. Lying, lying liars. Basically … they make stuff up. And Al shoots them down by doing what they’re incapable of: getting his facts straight. Power to the truth … Подробнее

Lieutenant Hornblower

Forester C.S., 2006

The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young señorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester’s inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. Подробнее

Lionboy: The Chase

Corder Zizou

Charlie Ashanti is on the run from an amazing floating circus with six homesick beautiful Lions and an extraordinary sabre-toothed creature. Charlie has promised to help the Lions find their way home to Morocco but he has his own problems: his Mum and Dad have been kidnapped and he is determined to find them. His new friends, King Boris of Bulgaria and his security chief, Edward, have promised to help. But can Charlie and the Lions trust them? One thing is for sure, the chase is on … Подробнее

Live Bait

Tracy P.J., 2007

When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock — old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution ... Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless. Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past. Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich, vivid characters as the author's debut Want to Play?, PJ Tracy's Live Bait is an electrifying thriller that explores the chilling extremes of evil and retribution. Подробнее

Lolita

Nabokov Vladimir, 2000

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.' Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. This seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Подробнее

London Orbital

Sinclair Iain

Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop – keeping within the ‘acoustic footprints’ – he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you’ve never seen it before. Подробнее

The Long Good-Bye

Chandler Raymond

To begin with he was another good time drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers. A little later he turned up as a vagrant on Hollywood Boulevard. For no reason other than curiosity Philip Marlowe came to the rescue. Then he brought Terry Lennox a drink. Which may be why he finds himself driving Lennox to Tijuana on the same night his very rich wife is found with her brains all over the floor. Murderer or no murderer, Terry Lennox is shaping up to cause plenty of trouble. And trouble just happens to be Marlowe's line of work ... Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Philip Marlowe stalked the tawdry neon wilderness of Southern California. There Raymond Chandler's creation became the most famous fictional detective since Sherlock Holmes; often imitated, never bettered. Read the complete Marlowe novels in Penguin paperback. Подробнее

The Love Secrets Of Don Juan

Lott Tim

Problem: Women full of impossible contradictions. Result: Bewilderment. Misunderstanding. Anger. Solution: Not known. Complicated by fact that you are also full of impossible contradictions. Down-but-not-quite-out advertising exec. Daniel Savage is one of the walking wounded – a casualty of the sex war. All his relationships have ended in defeat; one in divorce. Now he’s starting over. Starting with a blank sheet of paper, he catalogues all his past failures in order get to the heart of where it all went wrong. He ends up with ten infallible rules for making everything work out – the Love Secrets. All he has to do now is apply them to the love of his life – who just happens to be his best friend’s girlfriend … Подробнее

The Love Trainer

Llewellyn Julia

Men are like puppies – they need training. Otherwise: 1. They wee on the floor 2. They stay out late and scratch at the door to be let in 3. They whine when you say No 4. They think they can get away with murder by gazing mournfully into your eyes. Katie Wallace had her heart broken once, and she’s not going to let it happen again. What’s more, she doesn’t want it to happen to anyone else if she can help it. After discovering a talent for advice, Katy becomes a unique service provider – a Love Trainer, capable of answering all of the following: 1. Should I call him even though he hasn’t called me? 2. Why hasn’t he called even though I’ve texted, left two messages on his mobile and one on his landline? 3. When he turns up drunk in the middle of the night wanting a shag, do I say yes or no? 4. Is he worth the effort if I’m not even sure I want to marry him? But can you really coach a man like you would a dog? Or is Katy about to learn that when it comes to training, the work needs to start much closer to home… Подробнее

Love in A Cold Climat and other novels

Mitford Nancy

'How lovely — green velvet and silver, I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too.' She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. 'Mine's silver lamé, it smells like a bird cage when it gets hot but I do love it. Aren't you thankful evening skirts are long again?' The dresses, but oh the boredom of the Season, even for Polly Hampton, with her outstanding looks and excellent social connections — the ultimate 'It Girl' of fashionable society. Groomed from a young age for marriage by her mother, the fearsome Landy Montdore, Polly causes a scandal when she declares her love for her uncle 'Boy Douglas', the Lecherous Lecturer, and runs off to Italy ... Подробнее

Madame Doubtfire

Fine A.

A vast apparition towered over her on the doorstep. It wore a loose salmon pink coat... and tucked under its arm was an enormous imitation crocodile skin handbag... 'I'm Madame Doubtfire, dear.' Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domestic turmoil and have been torn between their warring parents ever since the divorce. But all that changes when their mother takes on a most unusual cleaning lady. Despite her extraordinary appearance, Madame Doubtfire turns out to be a talented and efficient housekeeper and, for a short time at least, the arrangement is a resounding success. But, as the Hilliard children soon discover, there's more to Madame Doubtfire than domestic talents... Подробнее

The Man In the High Castle

Philip K. Dick, 2001

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and the Nazis...In the neutral zone that divides the rival superpowers in America lives the author of an underground best-seller. His book — a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers — offers an alternative theory of world history. Does 'reality' lie with him, or is his world just one among many others? Подробнее

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